What Does Jeremiah 37:20 Mean?

at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive

“Therefore hear”

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction

“now I pray thee O my lord”

sovereign, i.e., controller (human or divine)

“the king”

a king

“I pray thee be accepted”

to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)

'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction

“let my supplication”

graciousness; causatively, entreaty

“before”

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi

not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing

“thee that thou cause me not to return”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

“to the house”

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

“of Jonathan”

jehonathan, the name of four israelites

“the scribe”

properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e., (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e., celebra

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“lest I die”

to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill

there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence